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August 2012

What’s Up With The Walk for the World This Year?

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• Lifeword has partnered with the technology company, FirstGiving, to make individual, online registrations and donations possible on our safe and secure website at www.firstgiving.com/lifeword. Churches do not have to register with Lifeword now since individual registrations are possible. Individual registrations will automatically link you and your online donations to your church when you select your church on the registration page. If your church (team) is not listed, please give us a call at 1.800.543.1090, and we will add it to the website.
• If the technology option does not appeal to you please continue to raise money the way you always have in the past.
• By registering online and setting up your personal Walk page you have the opportunity to invite all of your social media contacts to make a donation to the Walk, and raise more money than you ever thought possible. All donors will automatically receive a tax receipt from FirstGiving for their records.
• Two churches have the opportunity to win Youth Room Makeovers. We hope this will be an added incentive for youth to register online and raise money. The makeover will be a great outreach tool for youth by giving them a nice place to invite friends and classmates to, and to get them involved in their church youth group program.
• All Walk details and materials are available for download at the above website address; however, if you would like to request colored posters or the Walk video on DVD, please give us a call or e-mail Diane Ward diane@lifeword.com.
• T-shirts are in house and ready to be shipped. The shirts are $12 again. The incremental shipping cost chart is listed on our website. You may order shirts online or by calling Lifeword at the number above.
• Our goal is $450,000! Won’t you help us raise money, which will allow us to reach out to more people around the world such as our African listener below who sent in this excerpt?

Muftao

•“Muftao” is my name. I have followed your program for some time now and today I want to confess that I have been in church for a very long years and I have not call Christ into my life. This program have brought me to my knees and has made me to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal saviour and friend. I would have died and go to Hell but I am free. I have come to know the truth. Thank you preacher, God bless you.”

by Diane Ward • National “Walk” Coordinator

August 2012 – Mission Directors Report

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Pastor Jamie Jones once again entered into the baptismal waters at Smithville Lake with 10 people in tow. That’s right…Ten more people were saved and baptized at North Lake Church. It is exciting to hear what God is doing with the Jones family in Smithville, MO. Please pray as they continue to raise-up new leaders and start new life groups in the homes of their people.

This month our Special Missions committee will meet with John Herring and discuss the possibilities of partnering with him to start a new work in Nixa, Missouri. I have visited this community and the potential is great for planting a new church. Pray that we have wisdom and clear direction as we seek God’s will in this manner.
Danny Kirk

Camp Garwood 2012 Summed Up In One Word ….. WOW!!

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Saved at 2012 Camp

We had 352 registered campers and 46 professions of faith. Twenty-six were saved on Thursday evening, and the evangelist, Bro. Dustin Wisely, did not even preach!

The Harper’s led in the music for camp and did an outstanding job of leading us in praise and worship. Thursday night Bro. Dillon Harper gave a report of his mission trip to Ukraine and God used his testimony in an amazing way. He closed his testimony with an invitation and with the first notes of the music the altar began to fill up. People were counseling those who came forward at the front of the tabernacle and outside on both sides of the tabernacle.

When that was winding down Bro. Dustin spoke for literally just a minute or two and church groups were gathered around the tabernacle discussing the spiritual and emotional impact of that service. Just one word…WOW!

Wednesday, the campers were challenged to invest in Camp Garwood. We are looking for 350 people to commit to giving one dollar a week for the next 50 weeks. Hands went up all over the tabernacle. As of Monday, August 6, 2012, 66 people had already made the commitment.

by Claude Evans

The Herring Family – Mission Director’s report July 2012

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Last month I had the privilege of traveling through the state of Missouri with John and Alisha Herring as they began the search for the next chapter of their life. They were searching for God’s place in Missouri where He wanted them to plant a church. We looked at the several cities and it seemed that God was drawing them to the city of Nixa, just south of Springfield. John and his family made a second trip to Nixa to confirm God’s will. The following is a blog that John posted: read more…